CARAVAN signed an MOU with the provincial government of KP through Secretary Health and District Health Department, Swat for the management and health services delivery at RHCKalam District Swat according to the approved Quality standards of Health Department of KPfor such Health facilities. CARAVAN will run this facility for next 5 years. The MOU aims at increasing access to socio-culturally acceptable quality health services through cost-effective interventions and better management of existing resources with the following strategic objectives:

1. To improve quality of healthcare services at health facility through staff capacity building, and improved working environment.

2. To strive to achieve the relevant targets of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) through static and outreach Curative, Preventive and Promotive Health activities

3. To ensure community / patients’ rights protection through participatory approach and active involvement of community in monitoring and decision making

5. To pilot a referral system from community and to the category B & A care hospitals to improve services utilization.

A Support and Oversight Committee (SOC) will be formed for the quarterly review of progress, development of the model and support to the Hospital Management boards. The committee will comprise of:

i. Secretary Health Chairman

ii. Additional Secretary Health, Development Member

iii. Director General Health Service Member

iv. Chief Planning Officer, Health Department Member

v. Representative of Finance Department, not below

the rank of Deputy Secretary Member

vi. Chief HSRU Member/secretary

vii. EDO Health Swat Member

viii. Medical Superintendent/In-charge Health Facility Member

ix. Member BOG, CARAVAN Member

x. Member BOG, CARAVAN Member

xi. Member BOG, CARAVAN Member

xii. 2 Community Representatives, to be jointly

nominated by Health Department and CARAVAN Members

xiii. Co-opted member

A Hospital Management Board (HMB) will be formed. That will meet monthly to review the progress, resolve issues and ensure community involvement in the utilization of the services. In-charge each health facility will coordinate the monthly meetings.

With the financial assistance from Malteser International, CARAVAN has started vaccination campaign to vaccinate 3000 livestock of poor farmers in Union Council Kokarai, Qambar, Saidu Sharif and Islampur. This campaign is part of a medium size project “Increasing resilience by reducing vulnerabilities, and strengthening coping capacities and improving MNCH in disaster prone communities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan”. Agriculture Department’s allied component Livestock Department is providing technical assistance to meet the task. Vaccination has been completed in village Kokarai, Jambil, Saidu Sharif,Shagai, Qambar, ShaukatDara and Islampur has been completed while vaccination in village KarBakar will be completed in a copal of days.

Registered in the year 2000, under the Societies Registration Act 1860; CARAVAN is the brain child of social workers and development professionals who worked in the ‘Kalam Integrated Development Project (KIDP)’ in the 1980’s. Funded by the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC), and spanning over a period of two decades i.e. from 1992 to 98, KIDP was one of the first development projects in KPK. Following its successful completion, the ex-staff members introduced the idea to other like-minded social workers and development professionals across the province to launch an organization that would not only continue making efforts to invest in the social capital already created by KIDP, but also replicate the approach and efforts in other backward areas of the province. The outcome of these deliberations and efforts was the creation of CARAVAN in the year 1998.Established by the former Board and Staff members of KIDP, the organization became fully functional in 2004 and has been operating since then. CARAVAN began its journey as a technical, facilitative and organizational support institution, and concentrated its efforts on promoting self-supporting system of community development by harnessing local potential and building its capacity. The fact that CARAVAN is one of the founding members of the local NGOs consortium IDEALS, is an evidence of the emphasis placed by it on developing and nurturing local linkages. However, after working extensively with the communities, the professionals at CARAVAN felt the need to employ a more holistic approach to the development of the area. Consequently, in 2009 sectors such as Livelihood and Governance were also included in the organizations mandate.

Today, CARAVAN boasts a work portfolio comprising of around 90+ successfully completed projects across a range of sectors, including but not limited to, health, education, governance, agriculture, irrigation, infrastructure, and relief & rehabilitation. Undertaken through the financial assistance of national as well as international donors such as, The Asia Foundation, ISRA UK, Geneva Global, ADB, UNICEF, FAO, WFP, GTZ, RISE, TVO, Rotary Club, and USAID; these range from small scale interventions of Rs. 0.1 million to large scale endeavors of Rs. 38 million. Over the years, the geographical focus of the organization has also expanded from Swat to Chitral, Kohistan, Batagram, Shangla, Malakand, Dir, FATA etc. At present, CARAVAN operates from its Head Office in Peshawar, Regional Office in Saidu Sharif, and Program/Field Offices in Kohistan, Shangla and Chitral.

MISSION STATEMENT

To contribute to poverty reduction by supporting local communities in harnessing their potential and capabilities by organizing themselves into village and supra village level self-managed, self-reliant & sustainable institutions capable of undertaking development agenda into their own hands through active participation in the decision making process at local level

OUR VISION

Establishment of a prosperous society, based on the principles of social justice, equity and equality.